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FTC on closing Google antitrust probe: 'The facts were not there'
Google scored a major victory Thursday when the Federal Trade Commission announced it was ending its 19-month antitrust probe into the technology giant's search business. And that left FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz to explain why federal officials were not...
Tags: Clarence Thomas, Microsoft Corporation, Federal Trade Commission, Google Inc., Advertising
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Microsoft criticizes Google's proposed settlement with FTC
For two years, Microsoft Corp. has urged antitrust regulators to crack down on arch rival Google Inc. Now that the Federal Trade Commission is poised to allow Google to emerge from the antitrust probe without having to make major changes, Microsoft is...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Media Industry, Social Media, Computer Hardware, Computer Networking and Internet
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The FTC's Google ruling: a qualified free pass
The end of the Federal Trade Commission's 19-month investigation into Google was a win for the search giant, but only a partial victory for those who want clear limits on the commission's role in policing competition. The only binding action that...Tags: Justice System, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Expedia Incorporated, Anti Trust Crime, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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The Top 10 Connecticut Business Stories of 2012
The Hartford CourantIn some ways, 2012 was a carryover year from news of 2011, as the governor continued his aggressive economic development spending, United Technologies Corp. consummated a deal it announced in 2011, and the year's nastiest labor strike grew out of a 2011...Tags: Work Relations, Prosecution, Prudential Financial Incorporated, Dannel P. Malloy , Connecticut Labor Markets
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Apple takes quest for Samsung product ban to appeals court
Apple has decided to appeal a federal judge's ruling that denied the company's request to ban 26 Samsung products. In August, a jury ruled that the Samsung products had infringed a handful of Apple patents and ordered the South Korean tech giant to pay...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Justice System, Apple iPhone, Companies and Corporations, Joaquin Almunia
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EU slaps seven companies with heftiest 'textbook cartel' fine ever
The European Union slapped seven companies with nearly $2 billion in fines Wednesday over alleged schemes to fix prices for expensive tubes used in computer monitors and televisions, its heftiest fine ever against what it called “textbook cartels.&...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Europe, Science and Technology, Toshiba Corporation, Politics
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NHL players vote to authorize effort to dissolve their union
Members of the NHL Players’ Assn. have voted to authorize their executive board to dissolve the union, which would pave the way for players to file antitrust lawsuits against the NHL. Several people who are knowledgeable about the decision but are...
Tags: Ice Hockey, National Hockey League Players' Association, Elections, Sports, National Basketball Players Association
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Marvin Miller dies at 95; baseball union chief led push for free agency
Nothing about Marvin Miller seemed feisty or controversial at first glance; the soft-spoken economist was a smallish man with gray hair and a tidy mustache. But as a union leader, it was Miller who took on baseball's establishment in the late 1960s,...Tags: Hank Aaron, Unions, Arbitration, Bud Selig, Major League Baseball
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Goodlatte elected as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
Congressman Bob Goodlatte has been elected to serve as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Goodlatte was elected to the post by the House Republican Conference. His chairmanship will start in January when the 113th Congress begins. “I...
Tags: Justice System, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Litigation and Regulation, Computer Networking and Internet, Mark D. Obenshain
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Gas price spikes disguise real problems with California market
Gasoline price spikes, such as the event that drove the average gallon in California to a stratospheric $4.67 in October, create two types of frustration. There's the immediate frustration of seeing the price at the pump soar almost overnight to a...
Tags: Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Barbara Boxer, Petroleum Industry, Politics, Regulatory Policy and Organizations
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Farming: Creaming the co-op
Farm and Food FileSometimes it takes a newspaper’s ink-stained thumb to right the scale of justice, and no newspaper has a bigger, inkier thumb than the New York Times. On Sunday, Oct. 28, the Times published a 2,900-word tribute to the greedy good-old-boyism that...Tags: Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine, Anti Trust Crime, The New York Times, Joint Ventures
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School districts warned about millions in expiring technology funds
L.A. NOWSchool districts' expiring technology funds: California officials have urged school districts and charter schools to use $66 million in vouchers to buy technology before they expire next year....
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